Hey Everyone!!
So I did the bad thing of not keeping up on the blogging, but we have literally been gone almost every weekend. There is much to update, but we will break it down over the next couple of weeks.
Some of my personal highlights:
1. Good Charolette has vacated the premises. We saw him loading his truck one night, but I didn't think anything of it. Next day we realize the place is empty. Sure enough, he left in the middle of the night (aka: I owe rent- I am not paying- I need to run!!) Thus began the cleaning of the duplex to rent again. Nastiest carpet I have ever seen, and so much junk and trash to throw away.
2. We now have two new neighbors. At first I was excited. They seemed like a nice couple. Life in the suberbs was going back to good times. The next thing I know I am being awaken by this sound, "God (beep) Cobra, get your Mother (Beep) (Beep) back here. Cobra. Cobra!!!" Yes, our new neighbors have two dogs. A pug named Cobra and a French Bull dog whose name has yet to be broadcasted across the cul-de-sac yet. In due time, everyone, in due time!!
Most of my mornings on the weekend include the F word in them. It's good times around here, all the time!!
I will try to remember some of the other "good times" we have had the last couple of months and keep you posted. As always, our lives include such random and fun events. Never a dull moment at the Willingham Abode!!
Sunday, April 15, 2007
Monday, January 15, 2007
Repo Man: These guys are dedicated to their jobs
Now you may be thinking "Why would Tracey be talking about the Repo man, how embarrassing?" or "She could have just asked for money and we would have helped". This story is not about us directly, so breathe easy - Bart and I are doing fine.
In a earlier blog we had mentioned that people are always welcome at our place anytime. Well, someone out there must have taken that a little too literally. Wednesday night at 2:30am, Bart and I (Grissom and Batley too) were in bed and toasty warm. I was sleeping great because I was home battling the "Black Plague of all flu's", but suddenly I heard my dog barking, and Bart getting out of bed. There was someone knocking on our front door and ringing our doorbell like crazy. I immediately think of the degenerates next door, and figure one of our neighbors friends forgot which duplex was where they were staying.
It felt like 2 years for Bart to finally get to the door. We have no weapons in the house, so Bart had to use the fireplace poker tool as his back up. Bart opened the door only as wide as the chain would allow, and asked what was going on. Come to find out some guy was looking for a girl whose truck was being repossessed. The guy was told she was at our place, or we at least knew how to find her. It took Bart a couple of minutes to convince the guy that we didn' t know her or where to find her.
Later it made me think how sneaky and dedicated these guys have to be to do their jobs. They have to track these people down, and sneak attack them too. Plus, they probably have to deal with some scary people - which makes the 2:30am sneak attack so smart!! Keep up the good work Repo Men. Just keep us out of the excitement in the future please.
In a earlier blog we had mentioned that people are always welcome at our place anytime. Well, someone out there must have taken that a little too literally. Wednesday night at 2:30am, Bart and I (Grissom and Batley too) were in bed and toasty warm. I was sleeping great because I was home battling the "Black Plague of all flu's", but suddenly I heard my dog barking, and Bart getting out of bed. There was someone knocking on our front door and ringing our doorbell like crazy. I immediately think of the degenerates next door, and figure one of our neighbors friends forgot which duplex was where they were staying.
It felt like 2 years for Bart to finally get to the door. We have no weapons in the house, so Bart had to use the fireplace poker tool as his back up. Bart opened the door only as wide as the chain would allow, and asked what was going on. Come to find out some guy was looking for a girl whose truck was being repossessed. The guy was told she was at our place, or we at least knew how to find her. It took Bart a couple of minutes to convince the guy that we didn' t know her or where to find her.
Later it made me think how sneaky and dedicated these guys have to be to do their jobs. They have to track these people down, and sneak attack them too. Plus, they probably have to deal with some scary people - which makes the 2:30am sneak attack so smart!! Keep up the good work Repo Men. Just keep us out of the excitement in the future please.
"To the Moon, Bart"
We have had such weird things happening lately around here. It makes you wonder about the people we live around! The other evening Bart took Grissom outside to conduct his "evening affairs". As Bart is waiting for Grissy I hear him say "What the hell?". He then tells me to come outside. Once I get out there I see some guy walking into the duplex of the guy next door (the electricity stealer). Apparently this guy was outside with his "Junk in his trunk" exposed to the world. Bart isn't sure what quite happened, but we have three guesses, the last of which is the most disturbing. The guy was heavily intoxicated, but it still makes all 3 very painful to consider!
1. He fell down and was pulling his pants up ( I know, who pulls their pants up from a squatting position? - Just let me go there and stay happy)
2. He was peeing and was startled by Bart, so he quickly pulled up his pants.
3. He was "going #2" in the yard. This is Bart's hypothesis. Notice I say hypothesis. We did not go over to investigate the situation the next day. It is best to leave some things alone.
As you can see, things only continue to amaze me more each day! "To the Moon Bart, to the Moon"
1. He fell down and was pulling his pants up ( I know, who pulls their pants up from a squatting position? - Just let me go there and stay happy)
2. He was peeing and was startled by Bart, so he quickly pulled up his pants.
3. He was "going #2" in the yard. This is Bart's hypothesis. Notice I say hypothesis. We did not go over to investigate the situation the next day. It is best to leave some things alone.
As you can see, things only continue to amaze me more each day! "To the Moon Bart, to the Moon"
Sunday, January 07, 2007
Road Rage - Scary and True
This past friday I had the unfortunate experience with road rage. I take a highway on the way to work every day, and I consider myself a very polite and consciencious driver. I had to swerve into another lane on Friday to avoid hitting two cars in front of me. There was a space for me to do that and not harm anyone. Evidently the car I got in front of felt the need to have a set amount of feet in front of his truck, and he didn't like me getting into that area.
He proceeded to follow me on my tail, and even came around on the side of my Explorer and tried to run me onto the side of the road. Luckily for me, I watch a ton of the real crime shows and the cold case shows. Bart mocks me for it, but I feel I learn some interesting stuff from it.
There is a place in the trip on my way to work where I go to the right onto a smaller highway to get to work. So, to lose the crazy guy in the truck, I decided to act like I was going straight until the last moment. At the last moment, I jerked my car to the right over the white "don't cross over" lines and was able to lose him. I was very scared and did okay until I called Bart to tell him what happened. Of course, the tears came easily!! What makes people so crazy on the roads that they would put my life and others' lives into danger just to prove a point that I should have not entered his lane? I know that things can always end differently and I am thankful that I didn't get some crazy with a gun! If I hit the guys in front of me, they could have become angered as well. I guess at times you don't which would be safer, hit someone or swerve into the next lane? Here is wishing you all safe and road rage free travelling in the year of 2007.
He proceeded to follow me on my tail, and even came around on the side of my Explorer and tried to run me onto the side of the road. Luckily for me, I watch a ton of the real crime shows and the cold case shows. Bart mocks me for it, but I feel I learn some interesting stuff from it.
There is a place in the trip on my way to work where I go to the right onto a smaller highway to get to work. So, to lose the crazy guy in the truck, I decided to act like I was going straight until the last moment. At the last moment, I jerked my car to the right over the white "don't cross over" lines and was able to lose him. I was very scared and did okay until I called Bart to tell him what happened. Of course, the tears came easily!! What makes people so crazy on the roads that they would put my life and others' lives into danger just to prove a point that I should have not entered his lane? I know that things can always end differently and I am thankful that I didn't get some crazy with a gun! If I hit the guys in front of me, they could have become angered as well. I guess at times you don't which would be safer, hit someone or swerve into the next lane? Here is wishing you all safe and road rage free travelling in the year of 2007.
Saturday, January 06, 2007
2006 - A Year of Changes
Every once in awhile one of my friends will try to convince me that I need to write a book about some of the things that have happened to Bart and I. It seems we do have a lot of fun together, and we always have some pretty odd things happen to us. I need to catch you up on some of the fun times we have had in the last year. We will try to recall some of our favorites, and post them over the next couple of weeks. I hope that they bring you tons of laughter and enjoyment. I also was bad about mailing our Christmas letter from 2005 ( I know, it is sad), but it was one of my favorite years. I will be posting that on here as well soon. That was a year that included raw sewage and kidney stones. Stay tuned!!!
Extension cords and cuss words
We went back to OKC this year for Christmas.
Pause for some explanation: We now live in a duplex in Arlington, and we have a interesting driveway here. I had never really seen anything like these driveways before, but they are all over the area here. I guess it keeps the cost down when building duplexes. Who knows? We share a driveway with the neighboring duplex building. You come up our driveway and go to the right to get our parking spaces, and go to the left for our neighbor. Now, I will leave our neighbor's name out of this in case he should stumble upon my blog. We have appropriately named him "Good Charolette". He is a nice kid for the most part, and unfortunately, he was without power for 2 and half weeks.
So, I am loading our car up to head home and "GC" comes out and asks if we are leaving town for Christmas. We exchange the normal pleasantries that you do around the holiday season, closing out with "Have a merry christmas". We leave and have a great Christmas. I had to work this year the day after Christmas, so we headed back home on Christmas day. We arrived home around 7pm that night. We had my brother in law David, sister-in-law Kristen, and niece Kalyn with us. I am in the back seat with the girls and can't see anything, but while pulling into the driveway I hear a stream of cuss words come from my husbands mouth (Kalyn is only 6 months thank goodness. Uncle Bart will soon have to watch his words). Confused and not sure of what is happening, Bart throws open the car door and hops out of the car. I see him go to the side of our house, pull on something, and throw whatever it is across to our neighbors yard. Come to find out our neighbor had plugged a extension cord into our outside electrical socket and had been using our electricity all Christmas weekend. The worst part of all of this is as we are pulling into the driveway, I say "Oh look, how wonderful, "GC" has his electricity back on. I see light in his living room"
Oh yeah- he had electricity- on my dime!!!! The audicity of people. It never ceases to amaze me.
Pause for some explanation: We now live in a duplex in Arlington, and we have a interesting driveway here. I had never really seen anything like these driveways before, but they are all over the area here. I guess it keeps the cost down when building duplexes. Who knows? We share a driveway with the neighboring duplex building. You come up our driveway and go to the right to get our parking spaces, and go to the left for our neighbor. Now, I will leave our neighbor's name out of this in case he should stumble upon my blog. We have appropriately named him "Good Charolette". He is a nice kid for the most part, and unfortunately, he was without power for 2 and half weeks.
So, I am loading our car up to head home and "GC" comes out and asks if we are leaving town for Christmas. We exchange the normal pleasantries that you do around the holiday season, closing out with "Have a merry christmas". We leave and have a great Christmas. I had to work this year the day after Christmas, so we headed back home on Christmas day. We arrived home around 7pm that night. We had my brother in law David, sister-in-law Kristen, and niece Kalyn with us. I am in the back seat with the girls and can't see anything, but while pulling into the driveway I hear a stream of cuss words come from my husbands mouth (Kalyn is only 6 months thank goodness. Uncle Bart will soon have to watch his words). Confused and not sure of what is happening, Bart throws open the car door and hops out of the car. I see him go to the side of our house, pull on something, and throw whatever it is across to our neighbors yard. Come to find out our neighbor had plugged a extension cord into our outside electrical socket and had been using our electricity all Christmas weekend. The worst part of all of this is as we are pulling into the driveway, I say "Oh look, how wonderful, "GC" has his electricity back on. I see light in his living room"
Oh yeah- he had electricity- on my dime!!!! The audicity of people. It never ceases to amaze me.
Wednesday, January 03, 2007
Back and better than ever!!
After much nagging from some of you ( I know some of you are wondering who wanted to hear about us so much that they would bother us to return to blogging), we have resumed our blog. We did this half to appease the few of you who enjoy our lives so much. The other half is to make it convinent for our future house guests to know when we are available. We are now residing in Texas and we have already had quite a few house guests. Our house is always open to any of you. Don't stay longer than a week though, or Bart will begin to charge you rent (just kidding). We will be getting a bed for the spare bedroom in the next month or so (from IKEA!) so bear with us and the queen air bed a little longer.
Texas is becoming what we expected it to- fun and busy!! Bart and I plan to hopefully start taking some courses next fall (2007) to begin the journey of getting our Masters. Bart still works for the flooring company(almost four years now), and Barnes and Noble (his fun job) part time. I somehow found myself back in a pediactric office with 5 doctors again. I am working up front and things are slowly getting better. I called Bart my first day at lunch crying because no one was really befriending me. I know how shocking that sounds that no one wanted to be my friend - I am so personable!!! I have slowly begun to make friends and generally enjoy the clinic I work in . We will see how it pans out in the future.
If you are interested in coming for a weekend to visit, you will find our open weekends listed on a calendar under our links below. We named it Bart and Tracey's Bed and Breakfast ( I thought it was a appropriate name). There are no rates to stay here. We just wanted a fun way for you to be able to see when we are in town. Just drop us a email if you want a weekend, and we will block it out for you. We strive to be a fun host and hostess.
We are going to strive to be better at this. We'll see how well we do!!
Texas is becoming what we expected it to- fun and busy!! Bart and I plan to hopefully start taking some courses next fall (2007) to begin the journey of getting our Masters. Bart still works for the flooring company(almost four years now), and Barnes and Noble (his fun job) part time. I somehow found myself back in a pediactric office with 5 doctors again. I am working up front and things are slowly getting better. I called Bart my first day at lunch crying because no one was really befriending me. I know how shocking that sounds that no one wanted to be my friend - I am so personable!!! I have slowly begun to make friends and generally enjoy the clinic I work in . We will see how it pans out in the future.
If you are interested in coming for a weekend to visit, you will find our open weekends listed on a calendar under our links below. We named it Bart and Tracey's Bed and Breakfast ( I thought it was a appropriate name). There are no rates to stay here. We just wanted a fun way for you to be able to see when we are in town. Just drop us a email if you want a weekend, and we will block it out for you. We strive to be a fun host and hostess.
We are going to strive to be better at this. We'll see how well we do!!
Tuesday, April 04, 2006
The Road and the Radio
This past weekend - while storms raged on in OKC - Bart, Mom, and I spent about 4 hours rocking out with Sugarland, Dierks Bentley (Pause for reflecting on his hotness factor), and Kenny Chesney. What a concert!! Kids - seriously - fork out the money when Kenny comes to town. He puts on a show!! Once again, I followed the rules (when will I learn to walk on the edge?) and did not bring a camera because the tickets clearly stated....NO CAMERAS/VIDEO/AUDIO. Only to find out once we are inside, EVERYONE had cameras (Insert own choice anger response to the situation). Bart decides to save the day and go out to the car and get the camera. Great idea - until you read the signs on the door that read NO RE-ENTRY. Once again, I attend a concert without a camera. I am either going to have to pack one in or get a camera phone, but this insanity must stop. I do have t-shirts for both concerts that I have attended in the last month, so I can prove I really was there!!!!
On a side note, many of you have asked for a picture of Grissy to be posted. I am currently working on it and he should be on here soon. He will be so pleased to know he is popular - just like his mom (some of you may also say crazy and neurotic like his mom - but let's just leave those comments unspoken). I know I also owe many of you the explanation to our blog name (Boy - aren't you guys nosey...tee hee). That will be coming soon as well.
On a side note, many of you have asked for a picture of Grissy to be posted. I am currently working on it and he should be on here soon. He will be so pleased to know he is popular - just like his mom (some of you may also say crazy and neurotic like his mom - but let's just leave those comments unspoken). I know I also owe many of you the explanation to our blog name (Boy - aren't you guys nosey...tee hee). That will be coming soon as well.
Sunday, March 26, 2006
Rocky Mountain High
Two weekends ago, Bart and I hit the road down to Fort Worth, TX. We are slowly beginning the process of preparing to move there this late summer/early fall. We took some time to see the future college we hope to attend. We had a fantastic time with our good friends Matt and Melanie, and we even got to squeeze in seeing another camp friend, Michelle. In honor to our fantastic hosts I had wanted to get John Denver's "Rocky Mountain High" playing on here, but I am not sure if that can be done. Until that is developed, you will just have to hum it while reading this post. That is our way of saying thank you to Matt (a Coloradan?) and to Melanie - you make the best brownie ice cream snacks - EVER!!! Thanks for a fantastic time.
Tuesday, March 14, 2006
The New Dining Room
We just got and assembled our new dining room table this evening. We were mattress shopping and found this gem. I absolutely loved it, and it expands to seat 8, which is wonderful with all of Bart's family members. We still have to purchase 4 more chairs, but if any of you want to come to dinner we can seat more of you soon. My wonderful mom bought this for us as we begin to start furnishing our home slowly. My mother-in-law was gracious enough when Bart and I first were married to give us a lot of furniture. What a life saver!!! Let the dinner parties begin!!!!!!
Monday, March 13, 2006
Happy Birthday ME!!!!
Bart was a wonderful husband this past weekend and threw me a birthday party on Saturday. We had a fondue party with about 20 people. It was fun, and it really wasn't too much work!!!! Thanks to all of my great friends, I will be able to get the KitchenAid mixer that I have wanted for so long. Come and visit us and I will use my mixer to make you some cake or something. We'll post some pics soon as long as they turned out okay.
Sunday, March 05, 2006
Me and My Gang Tour
You may have wondered what it would be like to see Rascal Flatts from a second row seat? Let me tell you. Now, I did not have second row seats , but I was in the last row on the floor. During the concert this past friday they climbed onto a mobile stage and came to the back of the arena, landing on a small little stage. My friend Mindy and I immediately ran and were only about 10 feet away from them as the performed for about 20 minutes. What an awesome experience. Performing with them were Blake Shelton and Keith Anderson. They know how to put on a concert!!!! The sad part of this experience is that my camera was considered a professional camera, and I could not take it to the concert. Next month when I attend the Kenny Chesney, Dierks Bentley, and Sugarland concert, I will be taking a different camera!! Get out and see some concerts people - it is a great evening.
Thursday, March 02, 2006
Mr and Mrs Patrick Willingham
On Friday, February 24th, Bart's baby brother got married. My new sister-in-law's name is Crystal and she is a absolute delight. The pictures are in the following order:
1. The dress rehearsal
2. Bart, David, and Patrick
3. The wedding couple
4. The couple and the cake
5. Debbie (the boys' mom) and Patrick
6. Mike and Lisa Willingham (Pat's dad and step mom)
7. Aunt Connie, Aunt Linda, GMA Willingham, and GMA McGehee
8. Kristen and Tiffany (my sisters-in law - both making me a future aunt) and me
As you can see, the Willingham family is growing quite quickly. For this only child, it has become an awesome time with all the new siblings I have inherited. Trust me, you will be hearing when I am an aunt!!!! Congrats Patrick and Crystal.
1. The dress rehearsal
2. Bart, David, and Patrick
3. The wedding couple
4. The couple and the cake
5. Debbie (the boys' mom) and Patrick
6. Mike and Lisa Willingham (Pat's dad and step mom)
7. Aunt Connie, Aunt Linda, GMA Willingham, and GMA McGehee
8. Kristen and Tiffany (my sisters-in law - both making me a future aunt) and me
As you can see, the Willingham family is growing quite quickly. For this only child, it has become an awesome time with all the new siblings I have inherited. Trust me, you will be hearing when I am an aunt!!!! Congrats Patrick and Crystal.
The Feather
Our good friend Mindy bought Batley a feather toy for Christmas. We have to hide it in our hallway closet or the cat will play with it until he dies!!! He has started a new routine when you pass the door. He sits and cries for his feather. Once you open the door, he actually tries to scale the door frame. Bart was able to catch him in action one day. It shouldn't be long before we are posting a picture of him opening the door.
Sunday, February 19, 2006
Arkansas Trip
Against my better judgement, I have put our favorite new place to stay in Arkansas. This cabin was top notch, and we hesitated to let everyone know about it. We decided it was mean not to share what fun we had. We stayed in a cabin about 7 miles from Osage, AR and the entire place was ours. I included pictures of the cabin, some pictures we took on a photo adventure day, and the main room of the cabin. Bart had been putting in about 70 hours a week between his normal job and Barnes and Noble. I thought he deserved a break!! Check out their website sometime. You will find the website in our list of links. Once you are there, scroll down to Stonewall Cabin and click away!! Just don't book a weekend that we want!!!!
Wednesday, February 15, 2006
Summer Travels 2005
We had the opportunity back in August to take a small trip to celebrate our 5th Anniversary. We went for 3 days to Austin, TX to see family and friends, and to spend the day at Schlitterbahn. This is my absolute favorite place in the world (I haven't seen much of the world, but the Travel Channel agrees with me!!) Schlitterbahn is ranked every year on Travel channel as the World's Best Waterpark. We also had to make sure we got a photo of the Stevie Ray Vaughn statue down by downtown Austin for Bart. At least there were dogs for me to watch playing in the water and chasing each other. The last photo was a day shopping trip I made with my mom and Bart. I absolutely love Crate and Barrel and could not resist adding it in to our travels.
Tuesday, February 14, 2006
Our New Family
Back in July we added to our family by adopting Batley from a coworker of mine. He received his name from the vets because of his massive fangs he has. He fully believes in carrying out the statement of a "curious" cat. He keeps us on our toes. His favorite activity is to tap me on the head with his paw around 6AM so that Bart can wake up to feed him. Grissom quickly adjusted to his new friend. This won't be the last time you will hear his name. Many stories are sure to follow.
Sunday, February 12, 2006
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